humi

See also: Húmi

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *homei, locative of humus (“ground, soil”). Ancient Greek χαμαί (khamaí, “on the ground”) is the same formation.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈhʊ.miː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈuː.mi]

Adverb

humī (not comparable)

1. on the ground.
2. to the ground.

Noun

humī

1. inflection of humus:
   1. genitive/locative singular
   2. nominative/vocative plural

Related terms

• humilis
• humilitās
• humiliter
• humō
• humus

References

• “humi”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “humi”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “humi”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to fall on the ground: humi procumbere
    
  • to throw any one to the ground: humi prosternere aliquem
    
• Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)

Uneapa

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *kumi (“beard, chin”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kumi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣumi/

Noun

humi

1. lips

Further reading

• Lynch, John (December 2002), “The Proto-Oceanic Labiovelars: Some New Observations”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 41, number 2, pages 310-362
• Ross, Malcolm D. (2016), Andrew Pawley, editor, The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic: Volume 5, People: body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, →OCLC; republished as Meredith Osmond, editor, (Please provide a date or year)